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Oct 4, 1991 · Heaven Is a Playground: Directed by Randall Fried. With LaTaunya Bounds, Terry Bradley, Cylk Cozart, Stavon Lovell Davis. A coach and a lawyer team up to provide incentives for an urban high school basketball team to stay out of trouble.
- (365)
- Drama, Sport
- Randall Fried
- 1991-10-04
Heaven Is a Playground is a 1991 sports film based on Rick Telander's book of the same name. It was written and directed by Randall Fried, and stars Michael Warren, D.B. Sweeney, Victor Love, Bo Kimble, Richard Jordan and Janet Julian. Telander himself makes a cameo appearance in the film. The film was released on October 4, 1991 by New Line ...
- Randall Fried
- Patrick O'Hearn
- Keith Bank, Billy Higgins
Heaven Is a Playground is a 1976 book by Rick Telander. It describes Telander's observations of the streetball culture in Brooklyn during the summer of 1974. Among the players featured in the book are Fly Williams and Albert King. [1] The book was ranked #15 in a 2002 Sports Illustrated list of the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time.
Sep 3, 2013 · Heaven Is a Playground was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the playground life with his subjects at Foster Park in Flatbush.
- (66)
- Sports Publishing
- $14.99
- Rick Telander
Synopsis. On Chicago's South Side, too many kids get their one shot in life at the wrong end of a gun. But Byron Harper is determined to change all that with a dream called basketball. His hottest player, Truth, has a chance to turn pro, but first Harper has to tackle two major obstacles: Truth's drug problem and his ambitious, crooked sports ...
- 1991
- 4
- Randall Fried
Jan 1, 1976 · Afros, tubesocks, Pro Keds, finger rolls, stuff shots, the ABA, and Kool and the Gang are all the rage among the basketball youths of the inner-city in Heaven is a Playground. Set in Brooklyn during the summer of 1974, Rick Telander spends a tumultuous off-season logging the stories of the project playgrounds.
Oct 20, 2020 · —Barack Obama Heaven Is a Playground, now in its fifth edition to include more information on Fly Williams, was the first book on the uniquely American phenomenon of urban basketball. Rick Telander, a photojournalist and former high school basketball player, spent part of the summer of 1973 and all of the summer of 1974 in Brooklyn living the ...
- Rick Telander
